Stories

Local music: Queen Beef

By Claire Almond | gargoyle@flagler.eduClaire Almond Order up! Hot new rock n roll band, Queen Beef is ready to take on St. Augustine this year by opening up for bubblegum-rock band Peach Kelli Pop at Nobby’s on March 19th. The band consists of Michael O’Hara…


Inside The Cedar House Inn

By Marissa Donnelly | gargoyle@flagler.edu Stroll by The Cedar House Inn and more often than not the sign will read “No Vacancy.” A quintessential reflection of Victorian era homes of the late 1800s, The Cedar House Inn is nestled among three other Bed & Breakfasts’…


Pentagon lifts ban on women in combat

The cracks in the military’s historic glass ceiling are expanding.

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta announced last month that the Pentagon is lifting the ban on women in front-line positions. This landmark decision reverses a 1994 rule that denies women certain combat roles.



Cafe Eleven under new ownership

By Chelsea Walsh | gargoyle@flagler.edu

New owners Chad Cockayne and Carol-Ann Curley are hoping to breath new life into Cafe Eleven. Since November 2012, the new co-owners have absorbed cafe and venue management responsibilities. Cafe Eleven is best known for it’s eclectic decor, organic and vegan-friendly menu and intimate concert setting.


Movie Review: Les Miserables

By Diana Eales | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Miserable. Just miserable. That is exactly how to describe the film Les Miserables. In this movie adaptation of the classic Broadway musical, director Tom Hooper explored the raw characters of 1800s France. The way Hooper set the film is dark and grungy, dirty with the lifestyles of the lives onscreen.





The threat of being pedestrian

By Kelsey Boyle | gargoyle@flagler.edu

I experience the frustration of waiting for speeding vehicles to come to a stop for me in a designated pedestrian crosswalk on a weekly basis. It doesn’t matter if I have only a skateboard in my hand, or a bicycle on my left and my rabid pit-boxer mix leashed to the right. Certainly, I am not the only beachgoer who waits anxiously with arms full as cars hastily speed by on A1A in St. Augustine Beach.

Or any pedestrian crosswalk, for that matter.